Essays on Deference

How Individual Differences in Personality Affect Team Dynamics

Introduction Business organizations often find themselves hiring individuals from diverse ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds due to advantages associated with diversities. Teamwork is one of the managerial strategies that have benefited most organizations in terms of profitability and efficiency (Jehn, 1997p 238). However, differences in individual personality may affect the performance of the teams in undesired ways if strategic approaches are not implemented to deal with these differences. One of the aspects of the team that is significantly affected by personality differences is the team dynamics. These dynamics entail psychological and unconscious forces that affect the directions of the ...

The principle of separation of powers is one of the oldest at common law, having been enunciated by John Locke in his Constitutional theory. In his treatise, Civil Government, he argued that it would be a wrong for the same person to have law making powers and the powers to execute the same law. According to him, such powers were vested in the same institution or group of persons, there would be a great temptation of such individuals to use such powers to their own benefit and also to exempt themselves from their application. This principle was later modified ...

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Introduction

Meditation is a way to transform the mind, relax, build an inner energy and increase life forces, a practice aimed to reach a specific altered state of consciousness. The beginnings of meditations date back to appearing of the major East Asian schools and religions as Daoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. Nowadays, meditations are popular not only in the East but also in the Western countries. They are ways of personal growth and parts of psychotherapeutic programs that benefit people to attain the serenity of mind against the background of fast city life. ...

Food is a fundamental necessity of life and therefore becomes a rich conveyor of cultural traditions and norms and attracts patterns of symbolic significance much like a magnet, for example, who is entitled to eat with whom, and when, and how food is to be shared. The cultural understandings surrounding the sharing of food illuminates social dynamics by distinguishing cohesive social units and social distance. Indeed, it can be said that a culture is encoded in the expectations of behavior associated with the communal act of dining. The purpose of this paper is to examine the historical continuity of ...

Old Hickory

Andrew Jackson who was born on March 15, 1767 and died on June 8, 1845 was the seventh President of the United States Of America. Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, and the British at the Battle of New Orleans .He was a polarizing figure who dominated the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s, as president he dismantled the Second Bank of the United States and initiated ethnic cleansing. Jackson who was an essential frontier tycoon and an opportunist for whom the ideals ...